A System for High-Speed Synchronized Acquisition of Video Recording of Rodents During Locomotion

Abstract

The analysis of locomotion in laboratory rodents allow the study and understand the effects of diseases or conditions that affect the nervous system in the patterns of the rodents using qualitative and quantitative metrics. Many methods for the quantitative analysis of rodents’ locomotion have been previously employed. These methods rely on the use of high-speed video sequence recording that is analyzed through the analysis of the translations of the joints of the extremities of interest along time. However, there does not exist a standard system that allows the acquisition of videos for such type of analysis. In this work, we describe a system and its components for the synchronized acquisition of multiple high-speed video recordings of rodents during locomotion, including the required post-processing image algorithms.